here a simple wrapper script to start sublime text 2 and include environment variables under ubuntu

sublime_wrapper.sh

#!/bin/bash
# make it executable and symlink /usr/bin/subl to it
# don't source .bashrc since it won't work (I guess it makes sure it's only source once in the system)
source /home/yourname/.bash_env # put your env variables into this file and source it in .bashrc too, if you need them somewhere else
exec "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/sublime_text";